Episode 1235 - Holy "cow" - Also in the circus - Art exhibits - Oscar! oscar! - The ill-iad

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1235, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Holy Cow. With Cow in quotation marks

• 1: The Random House Dictionary calls it a children's game involving shooting, chasing, and capturing.
• cowboys and Indians.
• 2: A form of leather, or what has to happen before other cow go seek.
• cowhide.
• 3: The 3rd line of "Hey Diddle Diddle", it sounds like an attempt to get into Guinness.
• the cow jumped over the moon.
• 4: As a verb, it means to make a monk of someone; as a noun, it's the hood they wear.
• a cowl.
• 5: A chicken.
• coward.

Round 2. Category: Also In The Circus

• 1: 2-word term for insurance or social programs designed to assist those that have "fallen" on hard times.
• safety net.
• 2: This Adobe product helps you read a pdf pdq.
• Acrobat.
• 3: A secondary event, especially one that distracts attention from something of import.
• a sideshow.
• 4: Tolkien wrote that these were "for the Elven-kings under the sky".
• three rings.
• 5: Foremost of the Muses, she was said to be mother to Orpheus.
• Calliope.

Round 3. Category: Art Exhibits

• 1: In 1999 this U.S. city's Museum of Art mounted a show of the work Edgar Degas did when he visited relatives there.
• New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 2: A 1995 exhibit at California's Laguna Art Museum traced the history of this body art.
• tattoo.
• 3: In 1995 this art movement was on view in a Monet exhibit and in a Caillebotte show.
• Impressionism.
• 4: A recent exhibit at this St. Petersburg museum focused on art plundered by the Red Army during WWII.
• the Hermitage.
• 5: In 2003 the Getty brightened the L.A. scene with an exhibit on these decorated manuscripts.
• illuminated manuscripts.

Round 4. Category: Oscar! Oscar!

• 1: He was nominated for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Screenplay for 1978's "Heaven Can Wait" and 1981's "Reds".
• Warren Beatty.
• 2: This actress won her second Oscar for her role in the 1951 film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire".
• Vivien Leigh.
• 3: For a 1936 film bio, Paul Muni won an Oscar for portraying this French scientist.
• Louis Pasteur.
• 4: Julie Christie won an Oscar as a beautiful but empty woman in this "endearing" 1965 film.
• Darling.
• 5: He earned Oscar nominations for producing "The Color Purple" and for composing its score.
• Quincy Jones.

Round 5. Category: The Ill-Iad

• 1: This disease is more properly known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
• mad cow disease.
• 2: When this lung disease was still called consumption, it was one of the leading causes of death.
• tuberculosis.
• 3: The swelling that's the main symptom of this contagious viral infection is caused by enlarged salivary glands.
• mumps.
• 4: High pressure in the eye is often the cause of this disease that can damage the optic nerve and cause a loss of vision.
• glaucoma.
• 5: The name of this bacterial infection caused by contaminated water comes from an old word for bile.
• cholera.

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